the reason why gothic horror is so good is because it’s not afraid to explore the raw nature of human beings. so yes, it is supposed to be problematic

going to kill myself in front of EA hq to feel something (thread of full Bloomberg article below)

It begins! Took them long enough.

Genuinely so heartbroken for the Dragon Age devs, several of whom had been there since Origins. Their ideas were pushed aside in favor of money and they were never allowed to make the game that they wanted. They were treated horribly, set up to fail and then fucking fired.

A truly, colossally, bad take. In ancient times, the absence of a single author contributed to human agency by elevating the art of storytelling. AI does precisely the opposite—from its unethical sourcing & other exploitative labor practices to its replacement of the human voice.

I told you we’d be back

The male gaze is a visual media criticism, it is not a thing real human women exist under or can “conform to” or “escape from”. It is a concept of film language

🗣️🗣️🗣️ TOM KING IS AN EX-CIA OPERATIVE, COMMITTED WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ AS A PART OF “COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATIONS” AND HAS SUBMITTED HIS DC COMICS SCRIPTS TO THE CIA FOR APPROVAL

Happy Friday the 13th 🪓

It's so funny to see AI de-aging is being brought up in the context of same actors playing the same Middle-earth Elves decades later... In a franchise that is entirely based on the calamities caused by Elven desire to prevent decay instead of accepting it for it is and moving on

"Fascism doesn't just take down the oppressed, it doesn't just come for the people it's trying to control; it inevitably destroys the people who have worked the hardest to build it" — #Andor creator Tony Gilroy

"We just have to destroy the fabric of society and the climate to build the Utopia, don't you get it?"

teenagers will call hozier's music fake deep meanwhile they can't write an essay without chatgpt and think kafka's metamorphosis is just a story about an icky bug

YouTuber praising LOTR trilogy for staying true to author’s intention has spent 90% of his 1 hour long video praising the entertainment value of action sequences which Christopher Tolkien famously dismissed for cheapening the true nature and depth of his father’s works…

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

up until last year, iran hadn’t attacked another country in roughly 300 years. in the last year alone, israel has attacked: palestine, lebanon, iraq, iran, syria, and yemen

People say “the classics are boring” but the classics feature one-eyed giants, ladies with snakes for hair, a man who stays young while his portrait grows older and more wicked. These books became classics because they’re supremely entertaining.

A new camera rig called the Halo was invented for #Sinners 🎥 • Has 10–12 cameras that wrap around an actor's face • Data was then used to put Michael B. Jordan's face on the stunt double • Used in ~50% of scenes where both twins show up

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY will be released in a few weeks alongside the release of Jurassic World Rebirth. It will be narrated by Anne Hathaway, who plays the character of Penelope. Few images will be revealed. (via Reel Updates)